"You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.
" —George Lorimer"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you’re willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
" —Lou Holtz"The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it." —Tricia Cunningham<
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
" —Henry David Thoreau"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them." —Karen E.
Quinones Miller"Build your own dreams or someone else will hire you to build theirs." —Farrah Gray
Tuesday: Get Down to Business
When Tuesday rolls around, it’s really time to get down to work—but that’s sometimes easier said than done. Having trouble getting started on your Tuesday motivation? These expert motivational quotes will help boost your productivity so you can power through that to-do list and set yourself up for success for the rest of the week.
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
" —Earl Nightingale"You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires.
You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you." —Tony MorganWednesday: Keep it Going
It’s hump day, so you’re already halfway through the week—and you’re doing great so far. But don’t let that slow you down or stop you from working hard to achieve your goals for the rest of the week. These hump day quotes will give you that extra push to keep reaching.
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.
" —Steve Jobs"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
" —Thomas Jefferson"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." —Robert Collier
Thursday: Reflect on All You’ve Done
You’ve been focused and hard at work all week, so get your Thursday motivation started by taking a moment to look back at all that you’ve achieved. These reflective quotes for work will open your mind and allow you to appreciate where you’ve been, where you’re going and how well you accomplish your goals.
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." —Nelson Henderson<
"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan and guess what they have planned for you?
Not much." —Jim RohnFriday: Conquer Your Fears
It’s Friday, and if you’re lucky, this means that it’ll soon be the end of your work week responsibilities. You may need to be as productive as you can for one more day, but as you move into your weekend, remember not to let your fears hold you back—in your career or your life! These quotes will urge you to leave your current worries at the door and walk confidently toward the future.
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
" —Dale Carnegie"It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.
" —Robert T. KiyosakiSaturday and Sunday: Prep for Success
The weekend is a time for relaxing, rejuvenating, and reflecting on what you really want out of your life. It may also be a time to think about how to balance your job, the larger arc of your career, and your personal life in order to maximize happiness. Use these extra moments of free time to mentally prep for success!
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." —Joseph Campbell<
"Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success." —Henry Ford<
"Don’t aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in and it will come naturally.
" —David Frost"The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.
" —Robert Kiyosaki"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me." —Ayn Rand
Reflection Quotes to Reflect on for a Growth Mindset & Perspective
Here are 50 of my top reflection quotes to ponder, think about, and gain inspiration from. I hope these quotes provide motivation, perspective, and a mindset for growth for you apply. Just click through the visual quote slides or scroll down for the reflection quotes in text. Reflect on each one. What does the quote mean to you? Which ones inspire you?
"If you get, give. If you learn, teach."
• Maya Angelou
"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."
• Maya Angelou
"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently."
• Maya Angelou
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
• Maya Angelou
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
• Maya Angelou
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
• Maya Angelou
"Don’t tell me that worry doesn’t do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don’t happen,"
"No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself."
• Henry Ward Beecher
"Train people well enough so they can leave; treat them well enough so they don’t want to."
• Richard Branson
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
• Les Brown
"I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones."
• John Cage
"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
• John Campbell
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
• Joseph Campbell
"Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire."
• Catherine of Siena
"You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give."
• Winston Churchill
"The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live."
• Norman Cousins
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
• George Eliot
"it is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Find the journey’s end in every step."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our strength grows out of weakness."
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We can’t do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth."
• Evan Esar
"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."
• Henry Ford
"One meets his destiny often on the road he takes to avoid it."
• French Proverb
"The best way out is always through."
• Robert Frost
"A candle loses nothing of its light when lighting another."
• Kahlil Gibran
"One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
• Andre Gide
"It’s all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation."
• Rob Gilbert
"Great stories happen to those who can tell them."
• Ira Glass
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
• Ralph Hodgson
‘A moment’s insight is often worth a life’s experience."
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."
• Mae Jemison
"Keep you face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
• Helen Keller
"You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed."
• Ken Kersey
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
• Latin Proverb
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
• Bruce Lee
"Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thou shall progress."
• Mainmonides
"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."
• Sir Claus Moser
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
• Anais Nin
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
• Norman Vincent Peale
"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
• Jim Rohn
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
• Seneca
"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."
• Roger Staubach
"Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
• William Shakespeare
"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
• Henry David Thoreau
"I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one… I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
• Henry David Thoreau
"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."
• Oprah Winfrey
"if you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough."
• Oprah Winfrey
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world."
• Henry David Thoreau
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily."